How to Use contact lens in a Sentence

contact lens

noun
  • She wears contact lenses more often than glasses.
  • Our mascara testers represent different lash lengths, types, textures, as well as various sensitivities, such as contact lens wearers or those with allergies.
    Olivia Cigliano, WWD, 10 July 2024
  • As the two teams were warming up, a contact lens fell to the court from the eye of a Princeton player.
    John McPhee, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In this exam, your doctor will give you eye drops to numb the eye, and then place a special contact lens on the top of the eye.
    Amy Marturana Winderl, Health.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • There's no firm release date for the Mojo Lens, which could be the first AR contact lens to reach consumers.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 1 July 2022
  • This node, which looks like a contact lens, contains more than half a million nerve cells.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The post says the reason for the change is that Mojo hasn’t been able to keep raising money to work on its smart contact lens.
    Mitchell Clark, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2023
  • There’s a slew of contact lens brands and types on the market, but some are designed to help people with dry eyes, the Mayo Clinic says.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 6 Sep. 2018
  • There have been issues in the past with contact lens solutions.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2023
  • These drops should be added to the contact lens before insertion.
    Sarah Bradley, Verywell Health, 29 June 2023
  • Once the corneal tissue is re-shaped, a contact lens is put in place to protect the cornea until the outer layer grows back.
    Christine L. Larsen, Verywell Health, 8 May 2024
  • The hope is that a special contact lens may cause the pits to fill in with tears (or moisture), correcting some of the distortion.
    Jerry Adler, Good Housekeeping, 14 July 2022
  • The pair no longer venture near a contact lens store to avoid further aggravating the staff there.
    David Pierson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2020
  • So: exit the fembots of Trump’s White House, with their long blond blowouts, cloned from an atom of Ivanka’s tinted contact lens.
    Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2020
  • In 1993, the space shuttle docked with Hubble, and astronauts installed a sort of contact lens.
    Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
  • That includes the classic contact lens mistake of sleeping in them.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Zooming in and out will also be possible but the display on the first version of the contact lens will be monochrome.
    Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 13 June 2021
  • This may be just the start of using the contact lens as a platform for dosing medication.
    Emily Mullin, Wired, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Pall says the company is working to make the lens available as soon as possible to contact lens wearers in the US.
    Emily Mullin, Wired, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Hardy was introduced painfully trying to put a contact lens in his right eye.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Mojo Vision has been working on the concept of a smart contact lens since 2015, New Atlas notes.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 July 2022
  • The researchers have created a new type of contact lens that has a diameter of 10mm.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • That said, a contact lens exam can almost always be performed at the same time as your routine eye exam.
    Nicole F. Roberts, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But this is a good solution for some folks who need to renew an eyeglass or contact lens prescription.
    Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Have extra essentials in your carry-on, such as a change of clothes, contact lens solution and a phone charger.
    Washington Post, 22 July 2021
  • However, it’s been a challenge to marry a drug with a specific contact lens.
    Emily Mullin, Wired, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Additionally, see a provider if wetting your eye doesn't work to remove a stuck contact lens.
    Amanda Gardner, Health, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The Visian® ICL procedure consists of placing a corrective lens, similar to a contact lens, in the eye itself.
    Hoopes Vision, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Interestingly, vision is only part of the plan for this smart contact lens.
    John Koetsier, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • Williams was rushed to an area hospital where doctors opened her eye and removed her contact lens, according to reports.
    David Aaro, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2021

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